TTT Training

Yesterday saw our first Team Time Trial training session on the Calga course just north of Sydney. My new club, Bicisport, is much better organised than my previous club, and have several team workouts scheduled between now and Championship time at the end of August.

This was our first chance to ride together and see where each others strengths and weaknesses were. On what is basically an out and back course, we were instructed to go out at about 80%, keep things together, and "race" the return leg.

We "lost" one rider on the way out, even at the moderate pace and needed to wait for our third rider on the longer climbs. This Calga course is quite testing and undulates all the way. We need to work on a strategy to keep at least three riders together through to the finish so we may need to share most of the work between the two stronger guys in the hope of having the third man hang on on the climbs.

Went into Sunday with 108.2TSS and +12.6TSB, back in positive territory after a couple of shorter days forced on me by work.

My last ITT at Calga produced a 254wNP and yesterday's 43km TTT came up as 246wNP. Should have bee somewhat higher 'cos I waited for over three and a half minutes in total over two of the more difficult climbs. Felt like decent enough work though.

This morning, Monday, I rode out and back to the Bottom Box and then along Wakehurst Parkway and over Oxford Falls climb on my TT bike with a "mixed bag" of efforts. About 5min of L6, 8min of L5 and 28min of SST/L4. Legs a bit "heavy" from yesterday, but felt surprisingly strong.

TSS was virtually identical to the TTT training.....140 V 141 for approximately one hour and fifty minutes of riding.

I have an "Hour Of Power" indoors with the squad I coach in the morning, not too difficult a workout, planning to make it SST with a few ad lib surges.

Mike